Tuesday, 17 July 2012

50 Shades of Boredom

Yes - I know I am amongst the minority here but dear God - what a tedious read.

I am nearly through Book 2  but its proving hard....(darn the pun which has raised its head (oops!) again).

If you like these 50 words - you will probably enjoy the book....


Lip           Hot                    Dark             Submissive        Dominant
Bite          Whip                   Red              Room                Spank
Grey         Christian             Ana               Baby                Laters
Foil           Subconscious     Spreaders       Audi                Tousled
Touch Copper              Food Fuck                Orgasm
Jeans Fingers              Taylor Pain                 Packet
Shades Control              Steele Seattle              Virgin? (C'mon!)
Inner         Goddess              Piano            Childhood         Love (?!)
Sex           White                  Shirt             Sculptured Blush
Chest         Rolling                 Eyes             Repetition         Repetition


In the words of the new to sex but strangely expert Ana.........   "Oh My!"

I wonder if the popular Baby Names will change over the next 9-18 months?

Friday, 6 July 2012

Preparing for the Star Wars Party

#2 has requested a Star Wars party this year and I have attached the following pics of my attempts to stay within the force!

Brilliant ideas from friends in Cardiff who had arranged the best 5th Birthday party ever which was Star Wars Themed and set the standard!   Used Google for images of cakes and took it from there......


Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Q-Bots and what Big Society?

We recently returned from a fantastic weekend away at Legoland in Windsor to celebrate the birthdays of #1 & #2 and had managed to find what I felt was a good all inclusive deal which I booked back in February.

I had heard all about the Q-Bot system which in essence is an additional cost you pay to decide what level of queuing hell you want to experience along with other families, Rainbow, Beaver, Brownie, Cubs groups etc etc.

I felt I had already spent enough on the forthcoming weekend and and hence did not take the option of purchasing a Q-Bot which has an additional layering of system of " how to spend your hard-earned money".  Here are the definitions provided by the wondrous Wikipedia:


Q-Bot
The regular Q-Bot has been available since the system’s induction in 2008 and is representative of the queue times, therefore if a guest books a ride, they will wait the same amount of time as the actual queue at the ride, but they will not be required to stand there. This means that they can do something else with their time whilst not in that queue line, such as have lunch or physically queue for another ride. If they are late to the time shown on their Q-Bot, their place is not lost, and they can go back to the ride when they are free.  Extra £15 per person.


Q-Bot Express
The Q-Bot Express takes the queue time for each of the rides available on the Q-Bot device, and reduces them by 75%. Therefore, anyone who purchases the Q-Bot Express can get on more rides during the day. Extra £40 per person.


Ultimate Q-Bot
The Ultimate Q-Bot reduces the holder’s queue time by 95%, making the time between booking the ride and being able to ride virtually instantaneous. This means that the holder can get on significantly more rides during the day. Extra £70 per person.


We were on reflection, rather lucky on the queuing front as we had a two-day pass (which I would totally recommend as otherwise you could go quietly insane from spending time on your feet, shuffling like evacuees) but I had very mixed feelings about this whole system.  I rather suspect that being so close to Windsor that Legoland have seen its chance to sell what it feels to be like Royalty by encouraging those that can afford it, to flash their cash and swan past the poor "Commoners" who bless their little "soles" have to wait their turn.

As my husband pointed out to a lady behind us in the lengthy queue to the Viking River Splash, who was rather agitated that after our 20 min wait and nearing our time to board the ride, we were politely swatted back to allow a family of 3 to board in front of us with their special Q-Bot Fob..........Welcome to the Big Society.




Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Birthday Cake updates

I have been meaning to put the second cake I created for #1 for general viewing back at the end of May but as my previous reference to BT relates....one is rather limited on uploading capabilities when one has no bleedin internet for 3 weeks.  Rant over....move on.

So #1 is currently learning to play the piano so here is the cake of his choice for this years party.



In addition, #2 had her birthday recently and I was pushed for time for the first party, hence a very easy and lazy sponge cake adorned with fruit.   I have promised to do a Star Wars Light Sabre cake for this weekends party so that one will follow (pending success!)   Anyway - here is the fruit sponge effort.


Friday, 29 June 2012

Overtaken by a mobility scooter!

There are no bounds to the sights I see in Blaenau Gwent and this is one such occasion that took place a few weeks ago.

Basically, I was heading into Tredegar during my lunch break and took the slower but more direct route into town, through Ashvale and over the long stretch of speed bumps which actually do little but cause people  to rev their engines hard for 5 seconds, then brake, the rev, then brake, then rev....you get the picture.

I had just gone over the first two bumps and was about to rev towards the next, when out of the corner of my left eye, I saw what could only be described as a blur of maroon career down the hill on my left, cut the junction out at the bottom and completely cut me up!  

Obviously I braked suddenly to stop as I did not want to run over the maniac driver within the highly protective plastic rain sheeting.

Also I was worried about how it would look on a potential insurance claim form.......stupid person trapped under my bonnet in an enlarged umbrella on wheels.

At first, after the initial shock of the go fast maroon blur, I then quickly understood why the person had risked their life to get in front of my car because as they proceeded to drive in a straight line down the road, cutting out all of the bumps, there was almost a palpable cloud of smugness enveloping the scooter that said "Ha - one of the benefits you lot in your big cars will never be able to achieve"


Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Finally BACK!!

Hi Folks - finally back after nearly 3 weeks of no internet access so bear with me whilst I stack up all my observations and little news items and post them out to you!

BT = Bloody Tools........and that's rather unfair on tools really, as most actually have a purpose...

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Beaver Cake

A very quick post to evidence the latest birthday cake request for #1 which he will be sharing with his Beaver colony tomorrow night........where does the time go?!!